--- title: She was very weary and how tempting a quiet evening by herself, or w… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics description: She was very weary and how tempting a quiet evening by herself, or with only her dear Bible woman helper as companion, must have seemed, but she had the engagement with this teacher or that Christian brother to listen to his tale. Who acts: Russell, hair. A sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklo --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75089/3/106/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Gleanings from Chinese folklore](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75089/) / [Nellie N. Russell](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75089/3/) / 106 # Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Nellie N. Russell, sentence 106 She was very weary and how tempting a quiet evening by herself, or with only her dear Bible woman helper as companion, must have seemed, but she had the engagement with this teacher or that Christian brother to listen to his tale. **Who acts:** Russell, hair · **What happens:** be, tempt, have, seem, listen, tell · **To what, where:** engagement · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, Nellie N. Russell. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Russell, hair), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg75089:3:106 # text = She was very weary and how tempting a quiet evening by herself, or with only her dear Bible woman helper as companion, must have seemed, but she had the engagement with this teacher or that Christian brother to listen to his tale. 1 She she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 2 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 3 very very ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 weary weary ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 6 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 7 advmod _ _ 7 tempting tempt VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 4 conj _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 quiet quiet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 evening evening NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 11 by by ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 herself herself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 7 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 14 or or CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 15 with with ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 16 only only ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 17 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 21 nmod:poss _ _ 18 dear dear ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 19 Bible Bible PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 compound _ _ 20 woman woman NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 compound _ _ 21 helper helper NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 parataxis _ _ 22 as as ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 companion companion NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 25 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ _ 26 have have VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 conj _ _ 27 seemed seem VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 29 but but CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 30 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 31 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 engagement engagement NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obj _ _ 34 with with ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 36 det _ _ 36 teacher teacher NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nmod _ _ 37 or or CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 38 that that SCONJ IN _ 40 mark _ _ 39 Christian Christian ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 amod _ _ 40 brother brother NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 conj _ _ 41 to to PART TO _ 42 mark _ _ 42 listen listen VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 40 acl _ _ 43 to to ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 44 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 45 nmod:poss _ _ 45 tale tale NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 46 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | Russell | | | | | Russell's dear woman helper as companion *parataxis*; weary *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **tempt** | gerund | Russell *not said here* | | | | evening | by Russell | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **have** | must | Russell *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **seem** | past | Russell *not said here* | | | | | | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **have** | past | Russell | the engagement | | | | with this teacher or Christian brother | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent engagement=Patient | | 6 | **listen** | to-infinitive | Russell *not said here* | | | | | to hair's tale | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to tale=Theme | | 7 | **tell** | | hair | | | | | | nom tale «communication intransitive»: poss=agent | One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree. **Text:** «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, Project Gutenberg book 75089 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 105](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75089/3/105/) - next →: [sentence 107](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75089/3/107/) - ↑ back to [Nellie N. 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